OP Timings:

Available at Location: KIMS Cuddles, Gachibowli 

Timings: 10 am - 4 pm (Monday to Thursday & Saturday)

Available at Location: KIMS Cuddles, Kurnool 

Timings: 10:30 am - 4:30 pm (Every Friday)

Overview:

Dr Ramya Thota is the consultant ENT-HNS and Paediatric Otolaryngologist. 

She has completed her training in ENT-HNS, including Paediatric ENT, from reputed institutions, including AIIMS, New Delhi, and John Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford, for 8 years between 2014 and 2023. 

She is highly experienced with performing Paediatric ENT specialist work, including surgery, with respect to Paediatric ENT problems in newborns and small babies.

Qualification / Education:

• MS ENT - All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS, NEW DELHI)
• FRCS (ORL-HNS) - The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (UK)
• MIPDEd - John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford (UK)
• MRCSEd (ENT) - The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (UK)
• MBBS -Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada

Experience:

• Consultant ENT - Care Hospitals, Hitech City, July 2023- December 2023
• Senior Clinical Fellow in ENT, Head and Neck Surgery - John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK 2020-2022
• Senior Resident in ENT and Head and Neck Surgery - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi  2017-2020

Expertise:

Ear

• Comprehensive hearing assessment, including Newborn hearing screening 
• Cochlear implantation
• Treatment of congenital and acquired hearing loss due to several causes 
• Speech and language therapy  
• Congenital and acquired cholesteatoma 
• Acute ear infections and discharging ears
• Congenital Anomalies of Ear 
• Balance and hearing problems
• Endoscopic and microscopic ear surgery 

Nose and Airway

• Allergies and paediatric sinusitis 
• Snoring and breathing problems
• Sleep disturbance and paediatric OSA
• Endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS)
• Adenoidectomy and Tonsillectomy 
• Congenital airway issues and Paediatric stridor 
• Choanal atresia and Congenital nasal anomalies 
• Endoscopic airway and aerodigestive tract evaluation 
• Foreign body removal 

Head and Neck Surgery 

• Thyroglossal duct cyst surgery
• Branchial cleft anomalies 
• Enlarged lymph nodes 
• Tumours and lumps in head and neck region 
• Salivary gland disorders 
• Head and neck cancer in children 
• Thyroid gland masses

Publications:

• A Surgical protocol for sinogenic brain abscess - the Oxford experience and review of literature. Rhinology. 2022 Jun 21. doi: 10.4193/Rhin22.070
• Serum Survivin in Oral Submucosal Fibrosis and Squamous Cell Carcinoma - Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-0198 
• Estimation of Serum Levels of Heavy Metals in Patients with Chronic Invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis Before the COVID-19 Era: A Pilot Study
• ICA pseudoaneurysms and fistulas presenting as severe epistaxis: Endovascular management - Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-01980-0
• "Navigation assisted endonasal endoscopic optic nerve decompression in fibrous dysplasia" BMJ case reports. bcr-2019-230621 
• Low-grade fibrosarcoma of the external auditory canal: A Rare pathology and Unusual location. Head and Neck Pathology 2019; DOI 10.1007/s12105-019-01030
• Comparison between early and delayed facial nerve decompression in traumatic facial paralysis – A retrospective study. CoDAS 2018;30[1]: e20170063 DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20182017063
• Nasal tip dermoid cyst excision by open rhinoplasty technique. Journal of Child Science 2017 DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1055/s-0037-1604023.

Memberships:

• Member of ENT, UK
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Member of the International Postgraduate Deanery, RCSEd

Awards and Honours:

• Best Outgoing Post graduate in ENT in MS, AIIMS, Delhi in June 2017 
• Appreciation by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on the Exemplary completion of fellowship in the UK